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Primary school pupils planting trees at a Wilderness Education Centre in Kenya

‘Billion Tree Campaign’ blossoms to seven times its size, UN agency says

13 May 2008
A grassroots campaign to plant trees around the globe has announced that it is raising its target from 1 billion trees to 7 billion trees, the United Nations announced today.

UN-backed summit to spotlight private sector’s role in tackling climate change

12 May 2008
The United Nations will take part in a global meeting next year to assess how a new global climate change policy can also address the needs of the business community, it was announced today.

Climate change could imperil poverty goals, ECOSOC hears

2 May 2008
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) should send a strong message that efforts to achieve the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be reversed if climate change is not addressed, its President Léo Mérorès told Council members today.